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bookish

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

book·ish / ˈboŏkish/ • adj. (of a person or way of life) devoted to reading and studying rather than worldly interests: by comparison I was very bookish, intellectual, and worldy in a wrong way. ∎ (of language or writing) literary in style or allusion: long bookish scholarship. DERIVATIVES: book·ish·ly adv. book·ish·ness n.

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bookish

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

bookish •blackish, brackish, quackish •Frankish, prankish •clerkish, darkish, sparkish •peckish • rakish •cliquish, freakish, weakish •sickish, thickish •pinkish •hawkish, mawkish •folkish • bookish • textbookish •puckish •monkish, punkish •quirkish, Turkish •establish, stablish •Spanglish •embellish, hellish, relish •palish, Salish •English • stylish •abolish, demolish, spit-and-polish •Gaulish, smallish, tallish •owlish • Polish •coolish, foolish, ghoulish, mulish •bullish • dullish • publish •accomplish • ticklish • purplish •devilish •churlish, girlish •famish • Amish • schoolmarmish •blemish, Flemish •Hamish • squeamish • dimmish •warmish • gnomish • Carchemish •skirmish

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